 Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition ; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death.  Lays of the Pious Minstrels - Page 90by John Bawtree Harvey - 1865 - 180 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Granville Gepp - English poetry - 1830 - 194 pages
...joy. Cf. Part I. Exercise XCIX. 5. EXERCISE XXXI. (Longfellow). There is no flock, however watch'd and tended, But one dead lamb is there ! There is...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. Stanza n. 1, 2. Everywhere are bewailed the (lying (raoritura cohors) and the dead ; And the ceaseless... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachael, for her children crying. Will not be comforted 1 Let us be patient ! these severe afflictions Not from...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps.... | |
 | 1853 - 588 pages
...has not healed the breach or closed the wound. Our "fire-side has one vacant chair;" but " Let us bo patient, these severe afflictions Not from the ground...celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise." Young friends ! how eloquent is her early grave ! Our Jane was 1 6 years of age when she died. How... | |
 | Children's literature - 1856 - 1026 pages
...mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ? Let ns he patient; these severe afflictions Not from the ground...vapours ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death ! what seems so is transition... | |
 | 1868
...waves and billows pass over us, and we are made to possess wearisome nights and troublesome days : " Let us be patient ; these severe afflictions Not from...sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. And though at times, impetuous with emotion, And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1850 - 642 pages
...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted ! Let...severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But often timos celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see out dimly through the mists and... | |
 | 1860
...ground arise ; n But oftentimes celestial becedictions Assume this dark disguise. Newcastle-on-Tyne. ** "We see but dimly through the mists and vapours ; Amid these earthly damp?, What seem to UB but rad funereal taper*, May be heaven's distant lamps 1" THE TBANSFIGUKATION... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pages
...bring her out of her present darkness, into a most marvellous light. THE TWO GUARDIANS. CHAPTER XX. " Let us be patient. These severe afflictions Not from...see but dimly through the mists and vapours, Amid those earthly damps ; What seem to us but sad funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps." LONGFELLOW.... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ! Let...dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors ; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but dim funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Periodicals - 1849 - 934 pages
...chair ! The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead ; The heart of Rachel for her children crying Will not be comforted ! Let...Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mista and vapours; Amid these earthly damps What seera to us but dim, funereal tapers May be heaven's... | |
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